“In a recent survey of Alfresco Enterprise customers, 43 percent expressed an interest in using Ubuntu in their deployments of Alfresco, more than any other Linux distribution. Historically, Ubuntu has been the most popular Linux distribution among the Alfresco user community and this demand has spread,” said Barry Duplantis, vice president of customer services, Alfresco Software. “The introduction of Ubuntu’s LTS version has enabled Alfresco to add Ubuntu to our supported stacks for Enterprise subscription customers, making it one of best cost performance Linux stacks available on the market today.”

Following Canonical’s introduction of Ubuntu 10.04 as a Long Term Support (LTS) version, Alfresco incorporated Quality Assurance (QA) testing on Ubuntu into the recent Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 release. The certified stack included testing against versions of MySQL, OpenOffice and OpenJDK, taken from both the Ubuntu Partner repository and Alfresco distributions.

"Through working with Alfresco we have seen a rapid take-up of content management solutions running on Ubuntu," explained Neil Levine, VP of Corporate Services at Canonical. "Ubuntu has consistently been the top Linux distribution in Alfresco’s Open Source Barometer survey, and with the delivery of a very easy installation, we expect that many more organizations will explore the use of open source software both to save money and deliver exceptional value. In the prevalent economic conditions, very few can afford to overlook the combination of Alfresco and Ubuntu."

Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 provides a robust and scalable ECM platform which enables organizations to build and deploy future-proof content-rich composite applications. As the first commercially-supported CMIS implementation offering integrations around IBM/Lotus social software, Microsoft Outlook, Google Docs and Drupal, Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 becomes the first content services platform to deliver the features, flexibility and affordability required across the enterprise.

The Alfresco Enterprise Edition is certified against a large range of technology stacks (both open source and proprietary), goes through an extensive QA process and is provided with full commercial technical support.

About Canonical
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